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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?
(a) Pedro Martinez.
(b) Robin Ventura.
(c) Gary Carter.
(d) Roger Clemens.

2. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?
(a) 1840-1858.
(b) 1918 to 1940.
(c) 1920-1932.
(d) 1898-1935.

3. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Football.
(d) Basketball.

4. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) They saw him shot.
(b) They were told by the camp commandant.
(c) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.
(d) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.

5. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?
(a) St. Petersburg.
(b) Leningrad.
(c) Irkutsk.
(d) Moscow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?

2. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?

3. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

4. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?

5. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?

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